I walked over to Sniffles, who was busy at his lab doing work, mainly experiments. His lab was very neat and organized, surprisingly. I saw a bunch of containers each filled with a different object, laying inside in ruins on a shelf.

"Um, Sniffles" I said nervously and he turned around quickly.

"Flaky" He said nervous and cleared his throat, covering his experiment with a sheet.

"Um, what are you doing here?" He asked and I tried peering over his shoulder but I couldn't see so I just looked at him.

"Oh, um I want to know if there's any other place I might be able to go, maybe a town or a village" I said and he shook his head.

"Oh, uh sorry it's just us here. The children and me. There was a town outside where the older kids, like you and me were, but it recently got destroyed" He said.

"By what?" I asked curious and he looked away.

"Uh, a dragon like creature. It burned down the town and everyone there burned to dust, that's what happens when you die here" He said and I nodded. I picked up a box and it fell out of my hands, but Sniffles caught it and yelled at me.

"Are you crazy? Why would you touch such a delicate object such as this one?" He asked venomously and I took a step back, frightened.

"S-sorry. I just wanted to see what it was, but it slipped" I said struggling to find words to spit it his way. He sighed and calmed down, placing the box back on the shelf.

"It's alright, I'm sorry for yelling at you, I just...get really over attached to my work as important as these. I have scavengers come and go, finding treasure of people's life locks, broken and shattered from the rubble of the town. I guess I'm way over my head, but I'm trying to find something I never know before! A new thing of these mysterious life locks! I know I'm missing something from them, but I can't figure out what it is! I must get back to my research immediately! I'm sorry but I need you to leave right away" He said and pushed me out the door. I was a little stunned at what happened but I walked out to the courtyard, and saw Giggles, Cuddles and my new friends playing jump rope. I played with them, even if it was childish I hadn't had this much fun in a long time, especially with all the homework, teen drama, and the death of my dear friend, Petunia. She was OCD but she still knew how to have fun. I once had a poker game with her and Lammy, but I ended up getting cramps and being visited by you know who. I really hate being a girl sometimes, but it's not all bad. It started getting dark and Sniffles came out of his lab, into the courtyard.

"Alright everybody! Time for lights out!" He called and everyone started to go into the big hall.

"What's going on?' I asked and Giggles explained it.

"Sniffles said that everyone needs to go inside during the night so the lost shadows don't get us. They can only travel at night" Giggles explained. Someone yelled and everyone began to run inside.

"Giggles! Cuddle's is missing!" Someone shouted. She was a little girl with purple hair, and a white fleece sweater. She had jeans on and carried a little stuffed pickle in her hand. She had worried purple eyes and was about Giggles age.

"What! We have to find him!" Giggles said and the two ran off.

"Wait!" I said and ran off after them. They came to a stop and I saw hole in the fence. They climbed through it and I hesitated before following them. I had a bad feeling about this.

"Come on! I know where he is!" Giggles said and ran off with the purple haired girl behind her, me dragging behind.

"Wait! Where are we going!?" I asked, shouting and Giggles stopped to wait for me.

"Were going to Mystic beach! It's where us three would always go!" Giggles shouted and I followed along with her, being careful not to step on anything and fall. Giggles ran onto the beach and I gasped, staring at the sight in front of me. The sound of waves you would normally hear was replaced with whispers of people, but no one was here. The water was murky and a deep purple color, making it hard to see into. There was an outline of people's bodies in the water, glowing a dim white in the purple. Cuddles stood out on the beach and was staring out at the water, as if searching for someone. Giggles came and shook him, making him look at her. I gaped at his face, a sickly purple with his eyes black as the night. His voice shook as if he was startled by something and he was shivering as if he had been out here all night.

"Giggles! We have to help! We need to save them!" Cuddles said frantic and pointed to the ocean.

"What! NO! No one is out there! We need to go back!" Giggles said pulling on Cuddles sleeve.

"NO! We need to help! We can't abandon them! If you won't help them I will!" He said pulling away and rushed off into the sea.

"Cuddles!" I said and raced after him but Giggles pulled me back, tearing up.

"Don't! You'll only get sucked in too!" She said somber. I looked at Cuddles who was starting to slow down in the water, it was thicker than I thought as Cuddles trudged through it, but fell. He struggled to get up, and the water seemed to rise, making him fall under. He struggled to get air, and soon he fell under the thick water, and didn't resurface. I fell to my knees as Giggles and the other girl started into the sea, longingly.

"Lammy let's go" Giggles said and the two walked off. Giggles came and tugged on my shirt, making me look at her.

"Come one Flaky, before we end up like him" Giggles said and I stood up, struggling to say something to Giggles. Suddenly I heard it, the whispers. I stopped dead in my tracks as I heard them, making me cover my ears.

"Help me" They whispered.

"Help"

"Someone! Help me!"

"MAN OVERBORD!" They seemed to get louder and louder, making my vision fuzzy and my head hurt. I fell to my knees once more, in pain as they kept getting louder and louder.

"STOP!" I screamed as I began hearing a buzzing noise in my head. The whispers kept going and I heard the splashing of waves and the screaming of men. I felt someone tug on me, but U swatted them away, covering my ears in pain.

"FLAKY!" Someone shouted and I looked up, my vision still cloudy. I saw familiar red bow and pink dress. I reached out and grabbed it, making my vision come back and the whispers stop.

"Flaky" Giggles said sobbing and I hugged her.

"Giggles! I'm sorry!" I said feeling the tears over whelming me, and fell down my cheek. After everything got settled and everyone got collected we all left, returning to the hall where Sniffles greeted us.

"WHERE WERE YOU?" He screamed making Giggles flinch.

"Cuddles ran off and we tried to help him, but we couldn't" I said and Sniffles expression softened.

"I-I see. I'm sorry then for the confusion" He said and Giggles brought him a slipper, a bunny slipper that I recalled Cuddles wore.

"I got this for you" Giggles said and Sniffles took it.

"Thanks sweetheart" Sniffles said and went back inside. I saw people laying on the floor sleeping, and I sat down too. I laid down but didn't go to sleep, only laid there and thought about Cuddles eyes, his face and his death. Suddenly Sniffles came and tapped ma on the shoulder, making me jump.

"Flaky come with me" He whispered and I nodded. I followed him to his lab, but he stopped in the courtyard, making me a little worried.

"Yeah what's up?" I asked and he turned around to face me.

"Look at you" He said and I was so confused.

"Um what about me?" I asked.

"Your skin. It's glowing silver" He said and I looked at it. It was true, I had a small silver tint to me, and I was glowing.

"I want to do more research! Please come with me!" He said dragging me to his lab. I sat down in a chair and he babbled away.

"This is a remarkable discovery! We need to make sure no one else steals it! And to think I found it only because you, Giggles and Lammy when to find Cuddles! It's only at night too! I would have never seen it during the day!" He said gathering materials.

"Hold still" Sniffles said as he held up a metal object.

"I don't know about this Sniffles, can we not do it?" I asked and he shook his head.

"No, so let's start experimenting!"

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